It won't be long before our ancient biography book What Really Happened During Ancient Times will be ready for you to get your hands on.  In the meantime, here is a sneak peek into the book...

Eve

The Very First Days of the World

The long, thick, massive body of the slithering snake began to circle about her, taunting her, enticing her, deceiving her.  Its dry scaly coils brushed against her leg, sending shivers up her spine.  Once it completed its agonizingly slow circle around her, the huge head of the creature rose up ominously to confront her face to face.  The hypnotic ruby eyes of the snake matched the color of the gorgeous apple it held between its jaws.  “Eat,” the serpent hissed, “Eat and you will become as great as He – powerful, beautiful and everywhere at once!”

Struggling between desire and disgust, she tried to turn away from those eyes, but found that she was riveted in place.  Panic rose within her breast and she opened her mouth to scream, but no sound came.  She pushed down the urge to flee, mustered her courage and looked the great serpent in the eye with a confidence she did not feel.  “Let me go,” she pleaded in a faint whisper.  “Never,” it hissed.  The apple it held in its mouth began to ooze and drip from its fangs, like blood spilling to the ground.

The trance broken, the woman turned and ran at an inhuman speed she did not know she possessed.  Her feet barely touched the earth as she fled from the temptation that haunted her.  Several breathless moments later, she turned to look over her shoulder to find that the serpent was immediately behind her.  She tried to run faster, but realized with a sense of dread that she would not be able to outrun this beast.

“No!” She screamed.  “No!  Not again!  Please, not again!”

She awoke from her nightmare in a dripping sweat.  With her heart still pounding and her hands visibly shaking, she turned over to the one who would comfort her.  She found that she was alone.  The pale light of daybreak was filtering into their bed chamber through the reed doorway and she realized that Adam had already risen for the day’s work.

In the half light, she scanned the room to see that the children were still asleep.  Seth stirred and rolled over, but remained in slumber.  The images from her nightmare rushed back to her mind as she considered her children and her hopes and dreams for them.  She breathed a prayer to her Maker.  Why, Creator, must I continue to be plagued by these dreams?  Is there still a lesson that I have not learned from the garden?  God, please, please, erase these disturbing thoughts from my mind and give me peace.  Or perhaps you may see fit to tell me the reason for their continual return.  Have I not been punished enough?  Is your forgiveness not yet complete?

Yes, you will have to wait until the book comes out to finish the story.  Cruel, huh?  Still I thought I would give you just a taste.  I think that you will enjoy reading the stories of real people who lived during a time very different from our own.  Or was it really so different?